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CLEVELAND, Grover. Five autograph letters signed ("Grover Cleveland"), to E. C. Benedict, 1902-1906. Together 16 pages, 8vo, personal stationery, all with original envelopes, very slight repairs to top edge of 10 March 1905 leter.
FIVE AUTOGRAPH LETTERS TO HIS STOCK BROKER, REFLECTING ON OLD AGE, FISHING, AND THE SALE OF A BOTHERSOME NEW JERSEY FARM: 19 March 1905: Thanks for birthday wishes: "Somehow I am constantly thinking it's fifty eight instead of sixty eight that's written on the last mile post; and when I read the thing as it really is, it occurs to me that I have been traveling at a fast rate for the last four years." He talks of possible stock purchases and reports that his wife has boasted "with considerable cockiness" of a dividend she received on some rubber stock. "I never expected to hear any such talk as that from her." 24 August 1902: He reports switching to "bottom and pond fishing and unsuccessful trips after birds," but expresses worry about the ongoing coal strike that Teddy Roosevelt was trying to mediate: "I don't like to see so many things depending on one man's nod." 10 October 1902: He places an urgent sell order for "all stock of the Reading Railroad which your firm or you hold for me. I cannot at this time give you all the reasons which influence me in giving this direction; but they are peremptory. I am trying to do some work, but am annoyed and perplexed by many things." 20 October 1902: Thoughts on the value of U. S. Steel stock. 16 February 1906: Happily reports sale of Hopewell Township farmhouse. When he "delivered the deed and received the exceedingly modest cash payments, I'll feel like shouting. Isn't it a little absurd, after all I have been through, that I should be at last beaten by a little New Jersey farm?" Together 5 items. (5)
FIVE AUTOGRAPH LETTERS TO HIS STOCK BROKER, REFLECTING ON OLD AGE, FISHING, AND THE SALE OF A BOTHERSOME NEW JERSEY FARM: 19 March 1905: Thanks for birthday wishes: "Somehow I am constantly thinking it's fifty eight instead of sixty eight that's written on the last mile post; and when I read the thing as it really is, it occurs to me that I have been traveling at a fast rate for the last four years." He talks of possible stock purchases and reports that his wife has boasted "with considerable cockiness" of a dividend she received on some rubber stock. "I never expected to hear any such talk as that from her." 24 August 1902: He reports switching to "bottom and pond fishing and unsuccessful trips after birds," but expresses worry about the ongoing coal strike that Teddy Roosevelt was trying to mediate: "I don't like to see so many things depending on one man's nod." 10 October 1902: He places an urgent sell order for "all stock of the Reading Railroad which your firm or you hold for me. I cannot at this time give you all the reasons which influence me in giving this direction; but they are peremptory. I am trying to do some work, but am annoyed and perplexed by many things." 20 October 1902: Thoughts on the value of U. S. Steel stock. 16 February 1906: Happily reports sale of Hopewell Township farmhouse. When he "delivered the deed and received the exceedingly modest cash payments, I'll feel like shouting. Isn't it a little absurd, after all I have been through, that I should be at last beaten by a little New Jersey farm?" Together 5 items. (5)